Did Syria Make a Deal with the Democrats?

On February 12, two major events occurred in the Syrian capital of Damascus. First, with little press coverage, Zibignew Brezinski Jimmy Carter's former National Security Advisor was visiting President Assad. He led a delegation from the think tank, RAND Corp, to Damascus. What is notable about Jimmy Carter's national security advisor is that he is also a foreign policy adviser to current Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. That same delegation also includes Hassan Namazee, who is one of Hillary Clinton's foreign policy advisors- Debka. The other more prominent story, terror mastermind Imad Mughniyeh of Hezbollah was killed in a car bomb. Prior to 9/11 Mughniyeh was known as the terrorist who killed the most Americans.

Not much is known about what Brezinski said during his trip to Damascus but in the other side of town not much was known how Hezbollah terrorist mastermind Imad Mughniyeh was killed in a car bomb. Hezbollah and Syria quickly blamed Israel, suprisingly, Mughniyeh's widow blamed Syria for the assassination-aki Its also strange how Syrian authorities have not allowed Hezbollah or Iranian investigators to investigte the scene.

The assassination might have been a gift to the Democratic presidential candidates to show Obama and Clinton that Assad would work with them if one of them became president. It illustrates the fact that Assad could give away some of his precious assets in order to negotiate with the US. It would be interesting to see what Brezinski said to Assad and if a deal would be made to renew relations with Syria once the next president reaches office.